I of course purchased the story, because you authored it and because it is set in the same universe as “On the Red Station, Drifting” which I loved to pieces.įirst and foremost readers, yes I know that the price is very high. However I have to admit that when you advertised this story as “gender swapped” Sherlock Holmes, I stopped short in my tracks for few minutes, because I usually have no interest in gender swapped anything and Sherlock Holmes’s stories written by anybody except Arthur Conan Doyle as a rule is not my thing either. I think you are an amazing writer and I look forward to every new novel or short story from you. When the corpse turns out to have been murdered, Long Chau feels compelled to investigate, dragging The Shadow’s Child with her.Īs they dig deep into the victim’s past, The Shadow’s Child realises that the investigation points to Long Chau’s own murky past…and, ultimately, to the dark and unbearable void that lies between the stars… When Long Chau walks into her office, The Shadow’s Child expects an unpleasant but easy assignment.
Meanwhile, abrasive and eccentric scholar Long Chau wants to find a corpse for a scientific study. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in function rooms, and physical and virtual realities overlap, the appearance of environments easily modified and adapted to interlocutors or current mood.Ī transport ship discharged from military service after a traumatic injury, The Shadow’s Child now ekes out a precarious living as a brewer of mind-altering drugs for the comfort of space-travellers. Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars.
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